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Ecclesiastes 12:10 "The Preacher sought to find delightful words and to write words of truth correctly."Mon, 14 Aug 2017 02:26:24 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/Comment on Did Noah Warn People About the Flood? by Noah – Builder or Preacher | CanJAmericanhttps://stevepicray.com/2010/10/25/did-noah-warn-people-about-the-flood/#comment-3311
Mon, 14 Aug 2017 02:26:24 +0000http://stevepicray.com/2010/10/25/did-noah-warn-people-about-the-flood#comment-3311[…] Did Noah Warn People About the Flood? […]
]]>Comment on Who was the Pharaoh of the Exodus? by Steve Prattehttps://stevepicray.com/2014/02/13/who-was-the-pharaoh-of-the-exodus/#comment-3275
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:15:01 +0000http://stevepicray.com/?p=1143#comment-3275I want to followup with my comment that I just made on “likeness” for clarity reasons. Jesus the God/man experienced every thing that all humans experience in life with only one exception only-He was not conceived in sin nor did he have a sin nature as fallen man. Other than that, Jesus experienced hunger, thirst, loneliness, physical pain and all the other things, even death that every human face and experience. Being the very Son of God he experienced separation from even his Father and had to be strengthened by an angel in the garden to carry out and complete the mission he was sent on for all humanity. Because Jesus rose from that grave, we too will rise and live eternally with Him who is our High Priest who never dies and King of Kings who rules all things. All the collective knowledge of every human who has ever lived or will live pales in comparison to the Wisdom of God!

Love, Grace and Peace
Steve Pratte

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Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:00:50 +0000http://stevepicray.com/?p=1143#comment-3274Good post and good defense against “bobod.” On another matter, you say you are a nurse. Then the following will make sense to you of “how the blood of Christ was preserved divine, pure and Holy.” When God created the angels and Adam and Eve, He foreknew they would sin. Yet God still created woman and designed her to be the instrument to procreate to bring humans into the world and His Own Son. When the Holy Spirit fertilized the egg (seed) of the virgin Mary a wonderful thing started to form in her womb. The cells start to split and divide and the placenta begins to form to be the organs outside the developing child. The placenta performs three basic functions: First, it nourishes the developing baby with nourishment from what the mother takes in, it passes through the placenta to the child. Second, the waste generated from the child passes through the placenta and exit through the mother’s normal waste stream. Third, the placenta provides protection by preventing bacteria from reaching the child (if the mother would get sick, the child would also get sick), but the most important protection is to prevent the blood of the mother from mixing or coming into contact with the child due to different blood types. In our fallen case, we would die if that were allowed and in Jesus’s case as well but it was also the means to keep His Blood Holy and Divine, Thus, the blood of God was shed by the stripes and on the Cross. Also, the father determines the gender of the offspring as well, thus, Jesus was a male. In Acts 17:26 the Holy Spirit says: “And He has made from one blood every nation men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their pre-appointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings.” Jesus came in our “likeness” (Philippians 2:7) “likeness” in the Greek as “homoiōma”:
1. that which has been made after the likeness of something
1. a figure, image, likeness, representation
2. likeness i.e. resemblance, such as amounts almost to equality or identity
Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ὁμοίωμα homoíōma, hom-oy’-o-mah; from G3666; a form; abstractly, resemblance:—made like to, likeness, shape, similitude.

“Likeness” does not mean “sameness” or homo as all humanity.
With all this in mind, we see and understand how and why the man Jesus can lay claim to being the Messiah and Son of God and the things he did and performed while on earth seen by the disciples gave their lives for the Truth. All religions, Jesus excluded by saying: “I AM the way, the truth and the life, no man comes to the Father except through ME.” Satan as a father has his offspring in our generation today doing his work for him and perverting the truth with their unwilling hearts. I too am a Christian and a deacon in the body of Christ and like you am working on a chart of human history as well. I have been in the nuclear field for over 35 years. I also find Peter’s comment about the “elements” burning for that is exactly what nuclear plants do to generate heat and I find that amazing because how did a simple fisherman know of “elements?” It had to be the Wisdom of the Holy Spirit!

Please note: When I asked four pastors here in Dothan, Alabama “why was the blood of Jesus was holy?” they all gave the same response; “because He is the Son of God.” I told them that I already knew that by how was it preserved Holy? When I explained it to them it was as a light went off in their head and it made sense. Now I can sing “Power in the Blood” with understanding!

Love, Grace and Peace,
Steve Pratte

]]>Comment on Hell by Todd Brubakerhttps://stevepicray.com/2017/04/21/hell/#comment-3265
Sun, 18 Jun 2017 18:54:41 +0000http://stevepicray.com/?p=2192#comment-3265Numbers 14:29 The carcasses of you who have complained against Me shall fall in this wilderness, all of you who were numbered, according to your entire number, from twenty years old and above.
Remember in the time of Moses where all those who were of the age of 19 and younger were not to die in the dessert but could enter the promised land, “after 40 years”. This was after Joshua’s report of giants in the land and the people were afraid and balked when God had said to them “take the land!” It was a type of judgement for those without faith who spoke against God, to wandered in the dessert for forty years and then die never crossing into the promised land, and a type of grace for those entering into the promise land who were under the age of “accountability.” You don’t think the kids were following there parents lead and gripping at Moses as well? They shared the same sin of disbelief. Nineteen and younger. The point is, I believe in the age of accountability and this is a president in scripture for just that, in regard to children NOT going to hell. I have heard Christian idiots preach that Children as young as 5 years are in hell? I do not believe that for one second and never will of my God!!! The age of accountability speaks of ones ability to come to that certain place of understanding or maturity and or awareness so to speak, “as a child surely does not have,” and only then are they accountable. It is my belief that, that age is more that likely a bit different person to person and only God truly knows when a young person is NOW accountable for their sins even though we are all born into sin. I see the above story / scripture as real president..Please excuse all my run on sentences.. Thought this might be interesting for Steve..
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Sun, 18 Jun 2017 17:40:23 +0000http://stevepicray.com/2010/10/25/did-noah-warn-people-about-the-flood#comment-3264I agree wholeheartedly Steve Um. No!
]]>Comment on Adam Sandler is not Awful by Steve Picrayhttps://stevepicray.com/2015/04/24/adam-sandler-is-not-awful/#comment-3223
Thu, 04 May 2017 01:53:59 +0000http://stevepicray.com/?p=1407#comment-3223I really enjoyed his performance in The Cobbler (which is on Netflix right now), which was a semi-serious movie with comedic elements.
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Thu, 04 May 2017 01:39:31 +0000http://stevepicray.com/?p=1407#comment-3222Adam Sandler was the funniest young actor, but now, still funny but he seems to like to be in more serious roles.
]]>Comment on Who was the Pharaoh of the Exodus? by Stevehttps://stevepicray.com/2014/02/13/who-was-the-pharaoh-of-the-exodus/#comment-3219
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 20:22:28 +0000http://stevepicray.com/?p=1143#comment-3219Yeah for sure. I just couldn’t find the reference anywhere on wikipedia and wondered if you knew where you had seen it. Thanks.
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Mon, 24 Apr 2017 08:31:13 +0000http://stevepicray.com/?p=2192#comment-3217Obviously we don’t have all the details, but Christ gives us enough. From the context it seems that “Abraham’s Bosom” was a place. In Luke 16:26 Abraham says And besides all this, between us and you there is a great chasm fixed, so that those who wish to come over from here to you will not be able, and that none may cross over from there to us. which clearly indicates there are two locations with a chasm between. And the context also tells us that the people on Abraham’s side (known as “Abraham’s Bosom”) is a place of comfort (v. 25) and the people on the other side are tormented in flame (v. 23 “In Hades he lifted up his eyes being in torment”, v24 “for I am in agony in this flame”, v25 “and you are in agony” v28 “this place of torment”.

Babies don’t go to heaven? I was pretty clear that I wasn’t being dogmatic about that. In 2 Samuel 12:23, David’s one year old child has just died, and he states, “I will go to him, but he will not return to me.” I understand this to mean that David will eventually go to be with his son (in Abraham’s Bosom most likely since he died before the Resurrection of Christ). It COULD simply mean “I will go to him” in the sense that the baby was dead and David will soon be dead, but given the fact that there are only two possible destinations in the future, I choose to believe that my child that died in my wife’s womb at 15 weeks is now in heaven rather than burning forever in hell because the child didn’t get to be old enough to choose Christ. You believe what you like in this area. I’m not dogmatic about it, but when I get to heaven I will find out for sure.

And if you have decided that my theology is silly, pagan, and without any solid scriptural foundation, why do you persist in asking me questions? My answers are not going to be to your liking since they will be consistent with the things I have learned from the Bible, which you so plainly reject.

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Mon, 24 Apr 2017 08:18:14 +0000http://stevepicray.com/?p=2192#comment-3216The word κολασιν means punishment. You’re saying it doesn’t but it does. My Greek lexicon defines the word as “punishment”. Every biblical resource I have says the Greek word means punishment, so if you are saying it doesn’t mean punishment you’re going to have to show me who else on earth says it doesn’t mean punishment.

The sheep and the goats. Did you read the words in verses 31-32? It uses the word ὥσπερ which means “as, just as” showing very clearly that the Lord is judging the nations (v.32) JUST AS a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. So no, these are not literal animal members of the sub-family Caprinae. They are people.

The “sheep” (saved gentiles) go to glory, according to verse 34 “…inherit the kingdom prepared for you…”. The “goats” (unsaved gentiles) go to hell according to verse 41″…depart from me you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.” And the summation in verse 46 clearly explains what will happen: The saved (“righteous”) will pass into eternal life while the unsaved will go into everlasting punishment. And yes, you’re right, it doesn’t say heaven. That’s probably because according to Revelation 21-22 believers don’t live in “heaven” in eternity future. We will live on the new earth, but with God who will be among us and we will worship Him forever.

You’re right, it doesn’t say the sheep are saved. It says they gave aid and comfort to Christ’s brothers (the Jews) during the tribulation. I understand this passage to be saying that during the tribulation the only people helping the Jews will be believers. “A Gentile going out of his way to assist a Jew in the Tribulation will mean that Gentile has become a believer in Jesus Christ during the Tribulation. By such a stand and action, a believing Gentile will put his life in jeopardy. His works will not save him; but his works will reveal that he is redeemed.” (BKC).

God threatens people with unending eternal torment if they don’t accept your idea of Christ No, God threatens people with unending eternal torment if they don’t accept Christ, not my idea of Christ. The Bible is not a hard book to read, it’s pretty clear that if you place your faith in Christ, you will receive eternal life, and if you don’t place your faith in Christ, you will be tormented forever, first in hell, and then in the lake of fire (Rev 20:10-15).

I find it amazing that you are referring to my belief system as “pagan” when what I believe in this area has been the accepted teaching of the Bible regarding hell for the past two thousand years at least. This is the orthodox, fundamentalist view: Saved people go into the presence of God (colloquially referred to as “heaven”) and unsaved people go to hell.